Soft tissue roentgenography: Its use in diagnosis of thyroid carcinoma

Robert Lloyd Segal, Herman Zuckerman, Eugene W. Friedman

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Abstract

Among six patients who were proved at operation to have carcinoma of the thyroid three were found in whom the preoperative roentgenographic findings would have sufficed to give the diagnosis. In each of these three cases psammoma bodies were found in sections of the carcinoma. One out of four patients with local recurrences of thyroid carcinoma also showed characteristic malignant calcifications. In a total of 45 patients studied by soft-tissue radiography there were no false-positive diagnoses. In the differential diagnosis by roentgenography it is borne in mind that malignant calcifications are not dense but are poorly marginated, approximately uniform in size, grouped in streaks or in nebular formation, and without a calcific rim. Copyright, 1960, by American Medical Association

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1890-1894
Number of pages5
JournalJAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association
Volume173
Issue number17
DOIs
StatePublished - 27 Aug 1960
Externally publishedYes

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